The Kukryniksy was an artistic collective formed by three cartoonists. The name of the collective was derived from the combined surnames of each member; Mikhail Kupriianov, Porfirii Krylov, and Nikolai Sokolov. The satirical Illustrations of the Kukryniksy were widely published in Soviet newspapers and magazines starting in the 1930s. Between the summer of 1941 and the spring of 1945, the three artists were an integral part of the TASS Windows studio in Moscow, designing at least seventy-four ...

Mikhail Vasil'evich Kuprianov was part of the artistic collective, Kukryniksy. See kukryniksy.

Porfirii Nikitich Krylov was part of the artistic collective, Kukryniksy. See kukryniksy.

Nikolai Aleksandrovich Sokolov was part of the artistic collective, Kukryniksy. See kukryniksy.

Mospoligraf was a state-owned printing trust located in Moscow. When the Soviet Union formulated a plan in 1921 to consolidate the nation’s largest and best printing operators into state-owned trusts; Mospoligraf was organized in 1922 to carry out consolidation of the Moscow printing industry. With a staff of over two thousand, Mospoligraf was the second-largest printing trust organized in Moscow outside of the Mospechat’ trust, and it oversaw a myriad of houses under local printing sections such...

For backstory, please see the entries for State Publishing House, Moscow and State Publishing House.